Photos from the 2011 - Karl & Effie Welling Family reunion in Riverside, UT

Here are the photos I was able to capture at the 2011 Reunion in Riverside, UT! Enjoy - Jeanna

A 2nd cousin some of you might remember... Valerie Walkenhorst? or her mom Rhea LaVon Hess?

Low & behold - this is a very small world we live in. Someone I have known for 16 years as Dave's (my husband) cousin's wife... just so happens to be my 2nd cousin (once removed) but many of your 2nd cousins!!

This would be Val (Walkenhorst) Broadbent as I know her today with her Husband Kent - who is Dave's 1st Cousin & they live here in Green River with us (so yes, a double relation for Steve Lake & Julie (Lake) Young TOO!):

After our recent 5k race we had gone to China Garden for dinner afterwards & Val & Kent sat at our en

d of the big table by

us. Val was sitting right next to me & as we were all talking - Val happens to mention to me "So tell me who is Blain Welling is to you?"... Out of surprise of how she would know my Grandpa I told her!!

WELL - LOW & BEHOLD - her mother - Rhea Lavon (Hess) Walkenhorst & Grandpa Blain are cousins!! 1st Cousins!!! (How wild is that!) So her Grandma - Rhea Mae (Udy) Hess & my/our

Great Grandma Effie (Udy) Welling are sisters!!

So anyway - doing my duties Sunday Night at the Family History Center & ha

ving just returned back from a big Welling Family reunion - I was doing some research (As no one comes to the library on Sundays - so I might as well work.) I typed in &

was doing some work on Great Grandma Effie's side as many memories I had forgotten came back this weekend as we got to visit her house & hear many of the grand kids of hers tell stories - so I had to see if what I remembered was true & recorded & it was... Memories of my Great Grandpa that

I had - were from when I was only 3 & 4 years old - as he died when I was 4... (so that gives me hope that any & all memories we have had in our lives at some point will be able to be recalled - even if for now we don't remember them or have "things" that help to pull those memories ou

t & let us review them often!!) Sweet memories!! Anyway - as I was doing this I got the feeling to call Val & get some dates & info. & get it entered into my computer so I could link her with my family & to Kent - as I have him in my PAF connected to Dave's family!!

Low & behold she says - I have been wanting to call you all week. My mom is here from SLC &

brought with her a photo album & her family history info. I want to show you & I want you to meet my mom!! So instead of waiting till I got done at the FH center - she & her mom came to me & to visit at the FH Center!!

So I got to meet her mom - Rhea LaVon (Hess) Walkenhorst- we talked about some of

her amazing family memories - she was close to Aunt ReNae & recalled many memories of

the barn & the pasture with the bull in it, collecting eggs, etc. Some Neat moments for sure!! Then s

he gave me her book to bring home to copy & scan.

What a SMALL WORLD!!!

Below I will post the things that contain info. of our family that Rhea had in her book to share in case some of you don't have these or would like a copy!!

This would be her sister Rhea Mae (Udy) Hess

with Great Grandma Effie Welling!!

The house to the right is where Grandma Effie Welling grew up & she is the 2nd on the

far left with her little sister Rhea being on the very far left & the stroller between them.

I will type the Tribute below as it is hard to read here: Pioneer Mother passes away (dated Sept 6, 1932.)

Mrs. Rowane Moon Udy, 66 one of Box Elder County's pioneers, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mable Munns, Sunday morning, after a

lingering illness. She was born at Farmington, December 20, 1865, and was married to Thomas Udy, July 19, 1883. They made their home at Farmington for a a few years, moving from there to Plymouth, being one of the first settlers of that place. They later made their home in Riverside.

Mrs. udy has been very active doing Temple work for

the last 5 years.

Funeral services were held at the Riverside ward Chapel Tuesday afternoon. The chapel was filled to over flowing with friends & relatives.

The services were under the direction of the ward bishopric. A very high tribute was paid to the deceased, by Lorenzo Bowcutt and Mary Tingey of Riverside, Arthur Hess of Farmingto

n, Leonidas Kennard of Logan, & Stake President C.E. Smith of Garland.

Musical numbers were rendered by Helen Capener and Newell Ward accompanied by Enda Mae Ward. Vocal solos by Marion Hales and Lena Tubbs, Lila Tubbs, & Lavon Hales. Male quartette, Moroni & Newell Ward, Alvin Bowcutt, & Steven hales, Accompanied by Edna Mae Ward.

Violin & Cornet duet by Fred Nye & G.G. Sweeten, accompanied by Miss Ethel Rogers. Prayers were offered by William King of Garland and Robert Nish of Plymouth. The grave was dedicated by A. A. Capener.

The floral offerings were profuse & beautiful.

Mrs. Udy was the mother of 10 children, 9 of whom survive: Thomas J., Edmund, Horace, Austin, Mrs. Effie Welling & Mrs. Rowane McFarland of Riverside, Mrs. Mable Munns & Mrs. Able Wood of Garland, and Mrs. Rhea Hess of Tremonton. Also 47 Grandchildren & 3 Great

Grandchildren.

Then the photo to the right is Effie's Grandparents & a Uncle... Or Rowane's Parents & a brother.